Thanks to Scott Goldthorp, Janet McGrath, and Janine Rogers for gathering this information.
Many good ideas here.
Title: Introduction to Geologic Time Url: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/explorations/tours/geotime/gtpage1.html Appropriate Grade Level: 6-10th grade Subject Area: Earth Science/Geologic Time Short Description: This is an excellent introduction to the basic facts and concepts of geologic time. Students explore geologic time by clicking on marks in a giant book. At the end of the Webquest, students are required to complete a ten page multiple choice assessment.
Title: Rock Cycle Webquest Url: http://thegeosphere.pbworks.com/Rock-Cycle-Webquest Appropriate Grade Level: 6-10th Grade Subject Area: Earth Science/Rock Cycle Short Description: This is a simple introduction to the rock cycle. It is a bit “text heavy,” but it does contain several excellent interactive animations. The animations are the best feature of this Webquest.
Title: Wave Webquest Url: http://www.wvsd208.org/hs/Staff/nolld/phys/webquests/waves.html Appropriate Grade Level: 6 - 8 Subject Area: Waves Short Description: Students use the provided linked resources to seek out answers to questions covering basic wave Phenomena. The objectives covered include:What the different types of waves are, Interference of two waves, The reflection of waves on a spring, The concept of standing waves, the cause of the Doppler Effect
Title: Roller Coaster Physics Url:http://www.glencoe.com/sec/science/webquest/content/rollercoast.shtml Appropriate Grade Level: 6 - 8 Subject Area: physics Short Description: The task is designed for students to research laws of motion and apply them to an original roller coaster design.
Title: The Great Pyramid Url:http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/x/jxz8/Student_Webquests/Shatto/PYRAMID1.HTM Appropriate Grade Level: 9 - 12 Subject Area: Geometry Short Description: This web quest will allow students to build a scale model of the pyramids at Giza and compare them mathematically with each other and with some present day structure.
Title: Yellowstone Caldera Url:http://www.members.tripod.com/tdebuff/webquest.htm Appropriate Grade Level: 9 - 12 Subject Area: Algebra I, Algebra II, Probability and Statistics Short Description: Students will make predictions about volcanic activity and damage based on historical data.
Title: The Cycle of Life 1 Url: http: www.sciencenetlinks.com/Esheet.php?DocID=201 Appropriate Grade Level: 3-5 Subject Area: Science Short Description: This lesson gives you the chance to learn more about food chains and how almost all kinds of animals’ food can be traced back to plants and that the sun is often the ultimate source of energy needed for all organisms to stay alive and grow.
Title: Insects In Their Environment Url:http://sciencenetlinks.com/Esheet.php?DocID=198 Appropriate Grade Level: 3-5 Subject Area: Science Short Description: This lesson gives you the chance to learn about how insects depend on dead plant matter for food and how they interact with other organisms. You will explore how various organisms satisfy their needs in the environments in which they are typically found.
Title: Alien Invasion of Hawaii! Url:http://www.nevada.edu/~karla/ Appropriate Grade Level: 6-8th Grade (Middle School) Subject Area: Life Science Short Description: This Webquest allows students to examine the damage done by invasive (introduced) species to native species of plants and animals in Hawaii. Students play roles as varying specialists and explore ways to save native species of plants and animals, prevent further damage by harmful "non-indigenous species", and investigate ways to increase public awareness about this important issue.
Title: Motion… “Take Two!!” Url:http://chalk.richmond.edu/education/projects/webquests/motion/ Appropriate Grade Level: 6-8th Grade. (Middle School) Subject Area: Physical Science Short Description: In this Webquest students use teamwork and the many resources on the Internet to learn all about work, force, and motion. Group members fulfill the roles of kinematic, Newtonian, work, or applied forces experts in order to create a video aimed at making the concepts of motion more interesting for students.
Title: Tectonic Plate Boundaries Url:http://www.seed.slb.com/subcontent.aspx?id=5046http://blue.utb.edu/paullgj/physci1417/Lectures/Plate_Tectonics.html Appropriate Grade Level: 6-8th grade Subject Area: Earth Science Short Description: Students investigate what happens at tectonic plate boundaries. Animations and diagrams are included in the sites. I use these sites to have students take notes (on sheets that I provide for them) about what happens at each plate boundary. I also have some videos that I downloaded from United Streaming and then edited on Moviemaker.
Title: How did the Hawaiian Islands form? Url:http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/hotspots.html Appropriate Grade Level: 6-8th grade Subject Area: Earth Science Short Description: Students use the above web site and videos on my e-board to discover how the Hawaiian Islands formed. Students are given a list of information that they need to find.//
Title: The Journey of a Water Molecule Url:http://www.longwood.k12.ny.us/wmi/wq/lombardi2/ Appropriate Grade Level: 4-6 grade Subject Area: Earth Science Short Description: This web quest allows students to learn about the water cycle and follows a water droplet through the water cycle and into a plant.
Title: Weather Webquest Url:http://www.campbell.k12.ky.us/links/webquest/abner/weather.htm Appropriate Grade Level: 6-8 grade Subject Area: Earth Science Short Description: The purpose of this webquest is to research information on the Earth's atmosphere including its winds, precipitation, and clouds
Title: Cell Factory Records Presents Url:http://questgarden.com/83/07/7/100316131930/process.htm Appropriate Grade Level: 6-8 Subject Area: Life Sciences
Short Description: This webquest allows students the opportunity to learn about plant and animal cells and their organelles. Students work in groups to create a song about cells and also to create a cover for their cd.
Title: Understanding the Atom Url:http://questgarden.com/91/03/9/091113174533/index.htm Appropriate Grade Level: 6-8 Subject Area: Chemistry Short Description: Students are hired by the staff of a science museum to create an exhibit on our evolving understanding of atomic structure. Students will work in groups to create a timeline, a model of an atom, and a project display board.
Title: Let’s Build a City in the Solar System Url:http://chalk.richmond.edu/education/projects/webquests/space/ Appropriate Grade Level: 6th Subject Area: Astronomy Short Description: This Webquest gives teachers a creative alternative to teaching about the solar system. Rather than just learning a set of facts, students are hired by NAHS (National Association for Humans in Space) to find a location for the first human city elsewhere in the solar system. Students are given roles – journalist, colony expert, geologist, photographer, astrologist – and very clear tasks to complete in order to complete their mission.
Title: Seeing Double Url:http://questgarden.com/99/90/9/100401112706/ Appropriate Grade Level: 7th Subject Area: Life Science Short Description: This Webquest challenges students to form an opinion on a very current issue – the pros and cons of cloning. After using the Webquest to research cloning through various resources, students are asked to choose a side and participate in a debate, where they will defend their position. Although this Webquest could be developed more thoroughly, it provides opportunities for students with varying learning styles to be successful.
Title: Newton’s Three Laws of Motion Url:http://questgarden.com/86/07/1/100228175329/process.htm Appropriate Grade Level: 6 - 8 Subject Area: Science, Physics Short Description: Overview of laws of motion. Walks students through five interactive steps. Webquest begins with presentations of motion and force. It continues with students observing simulated experiments (as performed by Galileo) where students can change a few variables. An additional activity is a simulated lab using bumper cars as interacting forces. The webquest ends with students putting the laws of motion to use as they build a car to win the race. The teacher page is not developed.
Title: Simple Machine Webquest Url:http://visalia.k12.ca.us/teachers/solson/webquest/ Appropriate Grade Level: 6 - 8 Subject Area: Science, Physics Short Description: Students learn about simple machines and complex machines. Students are given a research guide sheet to complete as they learn about simple machines using internet sites and books. One site in particular offers students an interactive tour of a house and garage to indentify machines, with multiple-choice prompts to guide learning. The webquest ends with students developing a PowerPoint presentation about simple machines. They are given a slide template and paper draft that will aid in putting together their presentation. In addition, students complete a daily journal to record their thoughts/learning as they proceed.
Title: Brine Shrimp 2: Brine Shrimp Survival Url:http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.php?DocID=102 Appropriate Grade Level: 6-8 Subject Area: Life Science Short Description: To develop an understanding of how growth and survival of an organism depends on physical conditions. This is accomplished by designing an artificial environment in which brine shrimp can thrive.
Title: Sunflowers Url: http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2353/ Appropriate Grade Level: 3-5 Subject Area: Life Science Short Description: In this lesson, van Gogh’s depiction of sunflowers is used as a means of focusing on the parts of a flower, growing sunflowers in the classroom, and developing students' artistic impressions of sunflowers.
Title: Monarch Butterfly Migration in Peril Url:http://questgarden.com/99/86/6/100331203513/ Appropriate Grade Level: 3-8 Subject Area: Life Science Short Description: This Webquest provides students the opportunity to investigate the migration of the monarch butterfly. Students research to find out where and when monarchs migrate, how and why the monarch is threatened, and what they can do to help. Students then write a newspaper article to inform people about the plight of the monarch.
Title: My Day in Space Url:http://questgarden.com/94/24/4/100107152721/index.htm Appropriate Grade Level: 3-8 Subject Area: Earth and Space Science Short Description: In this Webquest, students will take a pretend journey through space and “visit” their choice of three planets. Students will research three planets, draw a map of their journey, and write about their tour to share their knowledge with their classmates.
Thanks to Scott Goldthorp, Janet McGrath, and Janine Rogers for gathering this information.
Many good ideas here.
Title: Introduction to Geologic Time
Url: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/explorations/tours/geotime/gtpage1.html
Appropriate Grade Level: 6-10th grade
Subject Area: Earth Science/Geologic Time
Short Description: This is an excellent introduction to the basic facts and concepts of geologic time. Students explore geologic time by clicking on marks in a giant book. At the end of the Webquest, students are required to complete a ten page multiple choice assessment.
Title: Rock Cycle Webquest
Url: http://thegeosphere.pbworks.com/Rock-Cycle-Webquest
Appropriate Grade Level: 6-10th Grade
Subject Area: Earth Science/Rock Cycle
Short Description: This is a simple introduction to the rock cycle. It is a bit “text heavy,” but it does contain several excellent interactive animations. The animations are the best feature of this Webquest.
Title: Wave Webquest
Url: http://www.wvsd208.org/hs/Staff/nolld/phys/webquests/waves.html
Appropriate Grade Level: 6 - 8
Subject Area: Waves
Short Description: Students use the provided linked resources to seek out answers to questions covering basic wave Phenomena. The objectives covered include:What the different types of waves are, Interference of two waves, The reflection of waves on a spring, The concept of standing waves, the cause of the Doppler Effect
Title: Roller Coaster Physics
Url: http://www.glencoe.com/sec/science/webquest/content/rollercoast.shtml
Appropriate Grade Level: 6 - 8
Subject Area: physics
Short Description: The task is designed for students to research laws of motion and apply them to an original roller coaster design.
Title: The Great Pyramid
Url: http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/x/jxz8/Student_Webquests/Shatto/PYRAMID1.HTM
Appropriate Grade Level: 9 - 12
Subject Area: Geometry
Short Description: This web quest will allow students to build a scale model of the pyramids at Giza and compare them mathematically with each other and with some present day structure.
Title: Yellowstone Caldera
Url: http://www.members.tripod.com/tdebuff/webquest.htm
Appropriate Grade Level: 9 - 12
Subject Area: Algebra I, Algebra II, Probability and Statistics
Short Description: Students will make predictions about volcanic activity and damage based on historical data.
Title: The Cycle of Life 1
Url: http: www.sciencenetlinks.com/Esheet.php?DocID=201
Appropriate Grade Level: 3-5
Subject Area: Science
Short Description: This lesson gives you the chance to learn more about food chains and how almost all kinds of animals’ food can be traced back to plants and that the sun is often the ultimate source of energy needed for all organisms to stay alive and grow.
Title: Insects In Their Environment
Url: http://sciencenetlinks.com/Esheet.php?DocID=198
Appropriate Grade Level: 3-5
Subject Area: Science
Short Description: This lesson gives you the chance to learn about how insects depend on dead plant matter for food and how they interact with other organisms. You will explore how various organisms satisfy their needs in the environments in which they are typically found.
Title: Alien Invasion of Hawaii!
Url: http://www.nevada.edu/~karla/
Appropriate Grade Level: 6-8th Grade (Middle School)
Subject Area: Life Science
Short Description: This Webquest allows students to examine the damage done by invasive (introduced) species to native species of plants and animals in Hawaii. Students play roles as varying specialists and explore ways to save native species of plants and animals, prevent further damage by harmful "non-indigenous species", and investigate ways to increase public awareness about this important issue.
Title: Motion… “Take Two!!”
Url: http://chalk.richmond.edu/education/projects/webquests/motion/
Appropriate Grade Level: 6-8th Grade. (Middle School)
Subject Area: Physical Science
Short Description: In this Webquest students use teamwork and the many resources on the Internet to learn all about work, force, and motion. Group members fulfill the roles of kinematic, Newtonian, work, or applied forces experts in order to create a video aimed at making the concepts of motion more interesting for students.
Title: Tectonic Plate Boundaries
Url: http://www.seed.slb.com/subcontent.aspx?id=5046 http://blue.utb.edu/paullgj/physci1417/Lectures/Plate_Tectonics.html
Appropriate Grade Level: 6-8th grade
Subject Area: Earth Science
Short Description: Students investigate what happens at tectonic plate boundaries. Animations and diagrams are included in the sites. I use these sites to have students take notes (on sheets that I provide for them) about what happens at each plate boundary. I also have some videos that I downloaded from United Streaming and then edited on Moviemaker.
Title: How did the Hawaiian Islands form?
Url: http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/hotspots.html
Appropriate Grade Level: 6-8th grade
Subject Area: Earth Science
Short Description: Students use the above web site and videos on my e-board to discover how the Hawaiian Islands formed. Students are given a list of information that they need to find.//
Title: The Journey of a Water Molecule
Url: http://www.longwood.k12.ny.us/wmi/wq/lombardi2/
Appropriate Grade Level: 4-6 grade
Subject Area: Earth Science
Short Description: This web quest allows students to learn about the water cycle and follows a water droplet through the water cycle and into a plant.
Title: Weather Webquest
Url: http://www.campbell.k12.ky.us/links/webquest/abner/weather.htm
Appropriate Grade Level: 6-8 grade
Subject Area: Earth Science
Short Description: The purpose of this webquest is to research information on the Earth's atmosphere including its winds, precipitation, and clouds
Title: Cell Factory Records Presents
Url: http://questgarden.com/83/07/7/100316131930/process.htm
Appropriate Grade Level: 6-8
Subject Area: Life Sciences
Short Description: This webquest allows students the opportunity to learn about plant and animal cells and their organelles. Students work in groups to create a song about cells and also to create a cover for their cd.
Title: Understanding the Atom
Url: http://questgarden.com/91/03/9/091113174533/index.htm
Appropriate Grade Level: 6-8
Subject Area: Chemistry
Short Description: Students are hired by the staff of a science museum to create an exhibit on our evolving understanding of atomic structure. Students will work in groups to create a timeline, a model of an atom, and a project display board.
Title: Let’s Build a City in the Solar System
Url: http://chalk.richmond.edu/education/projects/webquests/space/
Appropriate Grade Level: 6th
Subject Area: Astronomy
Short Description: This Webquest gives teachers a creative alternative to teaching about the solar system. Rather than just learning a set of facts, students are hired by NAHS (National Association for Humans in Space) to find a location for the first human city elsewhere in the solar system. Students are given roles – journalist, colony expert, geologist, photographer, astrologist – and very clear tasks to complete in order to complete their mission.
Title: Seeing Double
Url: http://questgarden.com/99/90/9/100401112706/
Appropriate Grade Level: 7th
Subject Area: Life Science
Short Description: This Webquest challenges students to form an opinion on a very current issue – the pros and cons of cloning. After using the Webquest to research cloning through various resources, students are asked to choose a side and participate in a debate, where they will defend their position. Although this Webquest could be developed more thoroughly, it provides opportunities for students with varying learning styles to be successful.
Title: Newton’s Three Laws of Motion
Url: http://questgarden.com/86/07/1/100228175329/process.htm
Appropriate Grade Level: 6 - 8
Subject Area: Science, Physics
Short Description: Overview of laws of motion. Walks students through five interactive steps. Webquest begins with presentations of motion and force. It continues with students observing simulated experiments (as performed by Galileo) where students can change a few variables. An additional activity is a simulated lab using bumper cars as interacting forces. The webquest ends with students putting the laws of motion to use as they build a car to win the race. The teacher page is not developed.
Title: Simple Machine Webquest
Url: http://visalia.k12.ca.us/teachers/solson/webquest/
Appropriate Grade Level: 6 - 8
Subject Area: Science, Physics
Short Description: Students learn about simple machines and complex machines. Students are given a research guide sheet to complete as they learn about simple machines using internet sites and books. One site in particular offers students an interactive tour of a house and garage to indentify machines, with multiple-choice prompts to guide learning. The webquest ends with students developing a PowerPoint presentation about simple machines. They are given a slide template and paper draft that will aid in putting together their presentation. In addition, students complete a daily journal to record their thoughts/learning as they proceed.
Title: Brine Shrimp 2: Brine Shrimp Survival
Url: http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.php?DocID=102
Appropriate Grade Level: 6-8
Subject Area: Life Science
Short Description: To develop an understanding of how growth and survival of an organism depends on physical conditions. This is accomplished by designing an artificial environment in which brine shrimp can thrive.
Title: Sunflowers
Url: http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2353/
Appropriate Grade Level: 3-5
Subject Area: Life Science
Short Description: In this lesson, van Gogh’s depiction of sunflowers is used as a means of focusing on the parts of a flower, growing sunflowers in the classroom, and developing students' artistic impressions of sunflowers.
Title: Monarch Butterfly Migration in Peril
Url: http://questgarden.com/99/86/6/100331203513/
Appropriate Grade Level: 3-8
Subject Area: Life Science
Short Description: This Webquest provides students the opportunity to investigate the migration of the monarch butterfly. Students research to find out where and when monarchs migrate, how and why the monarch is threatened, and what they can do to help. Students then write a newspaper article to inform people about the plight of the monarch.
Title: My Day in Space
Url: http://questgarden.com/94/24/4/100107152721/index.htm
Appropriate Grade Level: 3-8
Subject Area: Earth and Space Science
Short Description: In this Webquest, students will take a pretend journey through space and “visit” their choice of three planets. Students will research three planets, draw a map of their journey, and write about their tour to share their knowledge with their classmates.